Much of what he put in place is now gone, but Jack Tramiel’s aim at Commodore International Ltd was to make the company as vertically integrated and self-sufficient as possible – and he now plans to do the same for hispresent charge, Atari Corp: frustrated at the way the memory chip shortage has crimped Atari’s growth this year, he says he plans to build the company’s own dynamic RAM plant – not in the US but somewhere where costs are lower – for completion within two years.